Today on the Dish, Andrew vicodin-live-blogged the Bloomberg debate, and we compiled reax here. Andrew endorsed a big, serious program of infrastructure spending and tax reform, he elaborated on his interpretation of Biblical truths, and he wanted the executive branch to be more transparent about the execution of al-Awlaki. In our video feature, he explained how Oakeshott made a conservatism of the present possible.
As Chris Christie and the GOP establishment coalesced around Mitt Romney, more proof emerged that Mittens godfathered Obamacare. Bruce Bartlett fisked the 9-9-9 plan as Cain grabbed the lead in Iowa, the pizza tycoon tried to sell his ignorance of foreign policy as a political asset, and Larison, Yglesias, and a reader in Uzbekistan cringed. While we wondered if Perry could mount a comeback, TNC was more interested in what the Texas governor's constituents had to say. Ezra Klein stood by the Obama administration's approach to the economic crisis, and David Frum stuck with the party of less government.
The NYPD’s crackdown of Occupy Wall Street egged the protests on, a reader echoed Gregory Djerejian's sympathy for Occupy Wall Street as a movement to re-balance society, but analogies to Tahrir Square go too far. It does matter what Wall Street does, and the top one percent dominates total assets. #OccupySesameStreet caught on, Freddie deBoer condemned the entitled grievances of some of the occupiers, and Pete Wehner had the gall to advise Democrats to run from the OWS "tiger."
Burma is liberalizing "by imposition," Netanyahu has institutionalized right-wing ideology in Israel along neoconservative lines, and the Libya intervention will prove instructive when it comes to R2P and regime change. Readers defended the sanctity of Steve Jobs, and we lingered on his advice to do only what we love. Unorthodox accounting tricks obscure the fact that the USPS actually makes money, Jeff Deeney took us back to his old cracked-out stomping grounds, and we relished autumn. A beagle made the perfect landing, sterilizing your pet may induce depression, and successful marriages require extramarital passion and purpose. We marveled at the extreme curiosity of a physicist, Beyoncé danced a fine line between sampling and stealing, and "giant prehistoric Krakens may have sculpted self-portraits using Ichthyosaur bones."
FOTD here, MHB here, Hathos alert here, VFYW here, and VFYW contest winner #71 here.
— M.A.
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